Surreal and splendidly unconventional, The Hearing Trumpet is an apocalyptic fairytale quest about an occult old ladiesā home and the spry nonagenarian who ends up there. After coming into possession of a hearing trumpet, 92-year-old Marian Leatherby discovers her sonās plans to send her to a nursing home. But this is no ordinary placeā¦ Strange rituals, orgiastic nuns, levitating abbesses, animalistic humans, humanistic animals, a search for the Holy Grail and a plan to escape to Lapland and knit a tentā¦ Surrealist painter Leonora Carringtonās novel is an exhilarating journey brimming with laugh-out-loud humour and absurd lunacy.